Week 6

This week I met with my student Asami her level of English was quite low but was able to communicate with her. I talked with her and found what she was looking to improve was her writing and speaking. I explained my brief 2 to her and she was happy to participate. Next week I’ll start giving her lessons. I also observed an English class and learnt about the academic word list and strategies for teaching.  I will now make a lesson plan in which to use and a feedback sheet for Asami. I’m going to have to do some research before I’m ready to start teaching.    

Week 5

 In week 5 my son fell ill and I was unable to come to class or do any work on my brief 2. I did however find someone in which to tutor English in which to tutor a Japanese student named Asami Miura. She is studying English here. I’m looking forward to tutoring her and nervous about it too I haven’t taught anyone before.  

Week 4

This week I managed to catch up with work and complete my brief one. I’m beginning to wonder if my brief 2 will be two difficult to complete. I am however looking forward to gaining experience my chosen career path. I feel better having caught up with my work I hope I will not fall behind again.  

Week 3

This week I am continuing my view on E-portfolios. I am having difficulties in finding relevant information on the subject. Furthermore, I do not know how to cite resources from the internet I will need to do some research into proper web citation. I feel I have fallen even further behind in my work and need to catch up. Fortunately I have the learning outcome and formative assessment sheet so I can easily know where I should be in terms of work. I am yet to decide on what to do for my brief 2; I would like to do something that corresponds to my future goal of teaching English, but I do not know how I would incorporate it into a brief. I am however optimistic in these goals and will continue to work hard to achieve them.

Week 2

In week 2 I was still coming to terms with using Mahara. I find Mahara difficult to use, I had never used or even heard of e-portfolios before I-reflect and was still getting used to the different features it offers. I also found problems in finding information on e-portfolios especially in defining it; finding useable definitions and quotes with proper citations was mostly the problem. However, I eventually was able to manage my Mahara properly and eventually define e-portfolios. Due to problems I was falling behind and was in need of catching up.